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BIDEN: "I think the one place where the greatest consternation would be caused in the short term for admission, having nothing to do with the merit and preparedness of the country to come in would be to admit Baltic States now in terms of NATO-Russian, U.S.-Russian relations. And if there was ever anything that was going to tip, the balance were to be tipped in terms of a vigorous and hostile reaction -- I don't mean military -- in Russia, it would be that.”